Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Public Accounts Committee

Special Report No. 83 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Managing Elective Day Surgery

11:30 am

Professor Frank Keane:

All procedures that are done in the hospital as inpatient or day cases are coded. What was said to you before is that if a procedure is carried out in the outpatients department or sometimes in minor operations rooms, which are usually in the outpatients department, they do not get coded.